Sr Analyst, Cybersecurity Threat

Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize cyber threat management, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security measures with business objectives. Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture and cyber threat management. Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard cyber threat management processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats. Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams. Collaborate with key partners to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in cyber threat management. In this role, you'll focus primarily on proactive threat intelligence and hunting, with tactical incident support when needed: Develop detection content: Create and tune detection rules, correlation logic, and analytics across security tools based on threat intelligence insights and observed adversary behaviours. Track threat actors and campaigns: Monitor threat actor groups, emerging attack campaigns, and evolving TTPs that pose risks to financial services organizations, providing regular threat briefings and strategic assessments to security leadership. Support incident investigations: Provide threat intelligence expertise to investigation teams, helping attribute activity to known threat actors, identify related IOCs, and recommend containment strategies based on observed adversary behaviours. Enhance intelligence capabilities: Continuously evaluate and integrate new threat intelligence sources, tools, and methodologies while refining threat hunting playbooks based on lessons learned and emerging tradecraft. Engage the security community: Build relationships with external threat intelligence providers, security researchers, and peer organizations to exchange intelligence and stay current on emerging threats. Mentor and develop team members: Share your threat intelligence expertise with junior analysts, providing guidance on threat actor analysis, intelligence frameworks (like MITRE ATT&CK), and threat hunting methodologies. 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrate proven experience in security incident handling and security operations. Possess an in-depth understanding of network protocols, systems, and infrastructure security principles. Exhibit proficiency in analyzing business and employee needs, recommending, and designing end-to-end security solutions. Display strong incident management skills, effectively managing multiple incidents and driving results. Stay abreast of emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques through continuous monitoring of threat intelligence sources and participation in security communities and forums. Participate in cross-functional security projects and initiatives, providing security expertise and guidance to ensure the secure implementation of innovative technologies and systems. Possess excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey complex security concepts effectively.